List of Monk characters
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This is a list of characters in the comedy-drama TV series Monk.
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[edit] Main Characters
| Name | Portrayed by | Occupation/Status |
|---|---|---|
| Adrian Monk | Tony Shalhoub | Former police detective; crime consultant |
| Natalie Jane Davenport Teeger | Traylor Howard | Assistant to Adrian Monk |
| Captain Leland Stottlemeyer | Ted Levine | SFPD Police captain: Robbery Homicide |
| Lieutenant Randall "Randy" Disher | Jason Gray-Stanford | SFPD Police lieutenant: Robbery Homicide |
[edit] Former characters/Fleming-Howe family
[edit] Sharona Fleming
[edit] Benjy Fleming
Benjamin "Benjy" Fleming (Kane Ritchotte during the pilot episode and second and third seasons, Max Morrow during first season) is Sharona's son.
[edit] Gail Fleming
Gail Fleming (Amy Sedaris) is Sharona's younger sister and an actress. She first appeared in Mr. Monk and the Earthquake, where Sharona, Benjy and Monk stay at her house after a small earthquake. Her second appearance was in Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater. In this episode, she is framed by her understudy for stabbing someone in a play. In "Earthquake" she remarks to Sharona that she thinks Sharona copies her (moving to San Francisco, buying the same purse, etc.).
[edit] Trevor Howe
Trevor Howe (Frank John Hughes) is Sharona's ex-husband and Benjy's father from New Jersey. He appeared in two episodes: Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect and Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf. In "Sleeping Suspect" he shows up at Sharona's house for Benjy's birthday, seemingly a "different man." Benjy is happy to have a father, which is one of the reasons Sharona decides to quit being Monk's assistant and move back to New Jersey with Trevor. She later discovers, however, that he got plane tickets to where his rich uncle lives since his uncle cut him off when he got divorced. In his next appearance Sharona asks Trevor to take Benjy, afraid she is losing her sanity.
[edit] Cheryl Fleming
Cheryl Fleming (Betty Buckley) is the mother of Sharona and Gail Fleming. When her husband, Douglas, died, she was left to raise two kids alone. She visits Sharona in Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater, just when Gail is framed for murder. She then begs Monk to take the case, which he eventually does, though reluctantly. She thinks Sharona is the detective with Monk as her assistant.
[edit] Recurring characters
[edit] Kevin Dorfman
Kevin Dorfman (Jarrad Paul) is Monk's annoying, talkative upstairs neighbor. He is often seen cooking (with Monk). He first appeared in Mr. Monk and the Paperboy, where he won $43 million in the lottery, although his "girlfriend" tried to hide it from him with the object of eventually getting it all. However he lost it all on bad investments, golddiggers, and sleazy accountants. He has two sisters. He can recall all eight times he ate egg salad sandwiches. Kevin worked in a coffee shop in Aspen, Colorado two summers, but not two summers consecutively.
[edit] Harold Krenshaw
Harold J. Krenshaw (Tim Bagley) is another patient of Dr. Kroger. Harold and Adrian Monk have an ongoing feud, mostly about who they feel is liked the most by Dr. Kroger. Much to the dismay of Adrian Monk, in the episode Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink Krenshaw takes a bullet to save Dr. Kroger's life. Harold Krenshaw first appeared in Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf. Harold won (against Natalie Teeger) to become a member of Julie's school board in Mr. Monk and the Election. He is married and has a son, Jimmy. He also has a cousin who once tried to murder him. He is also somewhat famous as he is believed to be the "Frisco Fly", a human fly; in full actuality, he isn't, merely dropped into the role by his cousin and retaining it to infuriate Monk and gain respect from his son.
[edit] Dr. Charles Kroger
Dr. Charles Kroger (Stanley Kamel) is Monk's psychiatrist.
[edit] Karen Stottlemeyer
Karen Stottlemeyer (Glenne Headly) is the environmentally-conscious ex-wife of Leland Stottlemeyer and mother of their two children, Jared and Max. She also films documentaries. She first appeared in Mr. Monk and the Very Very Old Man, where she begged her then husband to investigate the death of an old man. She later appears in Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife, where she is temporarily put in a coma after being hit by a tow truck in her car; Mr. Monk Gets Fired, where she films a documentary of the San Francisco Police Department; and Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage, where Leland believes she is having an affair. It is revealed she was actually seeing a divorce lawyer. She has a sister.
[edit] Julie Teeger
Julie Teeger (Emmy Clarke) is Natalie's daughter.
[edit] Families of the main characters
[edit] Trudy Monk
Trudy Anne Monk (nee Ellison) is Monk's deceased wife. She died in a car bomb. Solving her murder is an ongoing theme on the show.
[edit] Ambrose Monk
Ambrose Monk is Monk's agoraphobic brother.
[edit] Jack Monk
Jack Monk is Monk's father, who left home when Monk was eight years old.
[edit] Dwight Ellison
Dwight Ellison is Trudy's father, a TV game show producer.
[edit] Marcia Ellison
Marcia Ellison is Trudy's mother.
[edit] Mitch Teeger
Mitch Teeger is Natalie's late husband, who died in the Kosovo War. He allegedly abandoned his men, but, as revealed by Natalie in "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring," she doesn't believe the reports.
[edit] Maria Disher
Maria Disher is Lt. Disher's mother.
[edit] Harvey Disher
Harvey Disher is Lt. Disher's late uncle.
[edit] Guest characters
[edit] Linda Fusco
Linda Fusco (Sharon Lawrence) is Leland Stottlemeyer's ex-girlfriend and a real estate dealer. The two began dating shortly after she hired Monk to investigate damages to her car in "Mr. Monk, Private Eye," and she even set Stottlemeyer up with a new apartment. The two continued to see one another, but their dates were often interrupted, posponed or cancelled as a result of Stottlemeyer's duties. She resorted to bidding on a date with him at a bachelor auction just to get him alone in "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan".
The relationship ended after Monk proved her the murderer of her former partner in "Mr. Monk and the Bad Girlfriend," leaving Stottlemeyer to wonder if the relationship was real or merely something she'd planned from the beginning.
[edit] Marci Maven
Marci Maven (Sarah Silverman): originally an obsessive fan of TV star Brad Terry in "Mr. Monk and the TV Star" until Monk revealed he murdered his ex-wife. She returns in "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan". In that episode, she found a new object to obsess over: Monk. She goes as far as paying $800 for him, buying him for six hours. The next day, she shows him how much she loves him, wearing his old pants, serving his drink in his old glass, even showing him a diorama of them from "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies", while singing him a song on her guitar about him. She loses interest by the end of the episode when she is caught in a lumberyard with a man who framed her dead dog for the murder of his wife. She gives him a package holding all his stuff she took, saying her new obsession, F. Murray Abraham ("May God have mercy on his soul," Monk tells Natalie) "wouldn't understand."
[edit] Season 7
Season 7 of Monk is said to come out in July 18.
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